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Environmental Research Letters, 2017 Brazil’s Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) is a potentially promising avenue to slow deforestation on private properties as it facilitates the monitoring of land use.
Laura Vang Rasmussen +4 more
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Wheat Farmers’ Perception of Constraints and Their Adaptive Capacity to Changing Demands in Egypt
Agriculture, 2023 Most of the approximately 105 million Egyptians depend on wheat in the form of baladi bread for their daily diet. Millions of smallholders along the River Nile have produced wheat for millennia; however, in more recent history, the wheat demand and ...
Ahmed Abdalla +2 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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The Lead-Firm Model: Connecting smallholders to high-value markets in Tanzania [PDF]
, 2013 In Tanzania, Oxfam adopted the ‘Lead-Firm’ Model and partnered with Katani Ltd. to improve smallholder access to markets for sisal. Katani agreed to improve the production and processing capacity of the smallholders, and committed to purchase
Gertjan Becx, Imogen Davies
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Understanding deforestation lock-in: Insights from Land Reform settlements in the Brazilian Amazon
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2022 Cropland and pasture expansion continues to erase natural ecosystems at a staggering speed globally, notably in the tropics. Conventional policy approaches, usually focused on a particular land-use change driver (e.g., specific commodities) or individual
Gabriela Russo Lopes +2 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2021 Smallholders are a substantial part of the oil palm sector and thus are key to achieving more sustainable production. However, so far their yields remain below potential.
Rosanne E De Vos +4 more
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STRENGTHENING INSTITUTIONAL TOWARDS SMALLHOLDERS WELFARE Evidence from Existing Condition of Cocoa Smallholders in Sulawesi, Indonesia [PDF]
, 2013 This paper deals with institutional development of cocoa smallholders. As widely known that Indonesia is the third largest cocoa producer in the world, of which about 90% of total production is obtained from smallholders.
Arsyad, Muhammad +2 more
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
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Role of self-actualization in green production behavior: Evidence from rice smallholders in China
HeliyonUnderstanding who adopt green production and why they choose this strategy is an important issue that needs to be addressed in the context of increasingly severe agricultural pollution.
Hui Li +4 more
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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2021 Cocoa and oil palm production are major agricultural activities in Ghana, contributing substantially to the national economy and rural livelihoods. Even though smallholders produce practically all cocoa and a large fraction of oil palm in Ghana, their ...
Dompreh Eric Brako +2 more
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